COVER STORY ZERO WASTE - No Longer Content to Just Recycle Waste, Environmentalists Want Us to Reduce it to Nothing Can We Be Garbage-Free? Beyond Recycling, The New Goal Is Zero Waste.On October 18, the nation's most colorful governor, Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, took the podium at the Riverfront Radisson in St. Paul and announced a radical new program to reduce the state's waste stream.
By Jim Motavalli A RUN ON THE BANKS - How "Factory Fishing" Decimated Newfoundland Cod How Factory Fishing Decimated Newfoundland Cod. Five hundred years ago, the explorer John Cabot returned from the waters around what is now Newfoundland and reported that codfish ran so thick you could catch them by hanging wicker baskets over a ship's side.
CURRENTS GROWING THE GREENS OPEN SEASON - Trophy Hunters are Wiping out British Columbia's Grizzlies LUNCH LINE - Teaching Good Nutrition and Sound Farming in the School Cafeteria THE PAPER PROJECT - Environmentalists Team Up to Reform the Magazine Industry THE WRITE STUFF - The Society of Environmental Journalists Plays an Important--and Controversial--Role CONSIDER THE SOURCE - How Clean is Your Bottled Water?
